Acts 12:22

δῆμος : only in Acts 17:5; Acts 19:30; Acts 19:33, but in the same signification in classical Greek. ἐπεφώνει : later Greek in this sense (cf. the flatterers in the description of Josephus, u. s., ἀνεβόων, that Herod was θεός, and so in the words εὐμενὴς εἴης). In N.T. only in Luke, cf. Luke 23:21; Acts 21:34; Acts 22:24; cf. 2Ma 1:23, 3Ma 7:13, 1Es 9:47. The imperfect quite corresponds to the description of Josephus: ἄλλος ἄλλοθεν φωνῆς ἀνεβ. θ. φωνή; for instances of similar flattery see Wetstein, and cf. Josephus, u. s.